Richard Atkins

Richard Atkins is a senior contributor at Tech Insider covering online media, online travel, and video games. Richard has been with Tech Insider covering companies in these industries since 2011 and has authored numerous industry reports, including "Internet Video: Field of Dreams or Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Next Leg of Online Travel," and "Pwned: How Casual Games Changed The Gaming Landscape." Atkins was recognized as the No. 2 stock picker and earnings estimator in the 2011 Financial Times / StarMine Internet & Catalog Retail category and was ranked in the 2010 Wall Street Journal "Best On The Street" for the Leisure Goods & Services category.

Software Stocks in News: Sony Corporation, Electronic Arts Inc & Microsoft Corporation

Here we take a look at three stocks which have dominated much of the news in the Gaming Segment recently: Sony Corporation, Electronic Arts Inc & Microsoft Corporation. Sony Corporation (NYSE SNE) learns lesson from its past mistakes about pricing the latest video games while Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) is still not concentrating upon the…

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Stock Update: Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) Buys 3D Graphics Firm drawElements

Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) acquired drawElements, a Finnish 3D graphics firm to improve its Android mobile operating system, which is one of the key focus of the search engine giant. drawElements specializes in analyzing and assessing mobile 3D graphics. Technology observers are speculating that Google will probably utilize drawElements for device standardization. Android operating system…

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Top Stock News: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) Records New High As Earning Beats Expectation

Owing to strong advertising gains, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) has posted earnings per share of $0.42 on revenue of $2.91 billion excluding one-time items. After an initial decline following the results, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) is presently trading at $74.07 up $2.78 or 3.91% in extended trading. Prior to the earnings call the company was…

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